The Essential Brunswik

Beginnings, Explications, Applications

Edited by Kenneth R. Hammond and Thomas R. Stewart

The Essential Brunswik

Beginnings, Explications, Applications

Edited by Kenneth R. Hammond and Thomas R. Stewart

Description

Egon Brunswik is one of the most brilliant, creative and least understood and appreciated psychologists/philosophers of the 20th century. This book presents a collection of Brunswik's most important papers together with interpretive comments by prominent scholars who explain the intent and development of his thought. This collection and the accompanying diverse examples of the application of his ideas will encourage a deeper understanding of Brunswik in the 21st century than was the case in the 20th century. The 21st century already shows signs of acceptance of Brunswikian thought with the appearance of psychologists with a different focus; emulation of physical science is of less importance, and positive contributions toward understanding behavior outside the laboratory without abandoning rigor are claiming more notice. As a result, Brunswik's theoretical and methodological views are already gaining the attention denied them in the 20th century. The plan of this book is to provide, for the first time, in one place the articles that show the origins of his thought, with all their imaginative and creative spirit, as well as thoughtful, scholarly interpretations of the development, meaning and application of his ideas to modern psychology. Thus, his views will become more understandable and more widely disseminated, as well as advanced through the fresh meaning given to them by the psychologists of the 21st century.

The Essential Brunswik

Beginnings, Explications, Applications

Edited by Kenneth R. Hammond and Thomas R. Stewart

Table of Contents

IntroductionPart 1: Beginnings: The Grand Ideas Introduced 1: The Organism and the Causal Texture of the Environment [1935] 2: Psychology as a Science of Objective Relations [1937] 3: Organismic Achievement and Environmental Probability [1943] 4: Distal Focussing of Perception: Size Constancy in a Representative Sample of Situation [1944] 5: Points of View: Components of Psychological Theorizing [1946] 6: Remarks on Functionalism in Perception [1949] 7: Representative Design and Probabilistic Theory in a Functional Psychology [1955] and In Defense of Probabilistic Functionalism: A Reply [1955]Part 2: Explications: Iconoclasm at WorkA. Demonstrations of a New Methodology: Representative Design 8: Probability Learning of Perceptual Cues in the Establishment of a Weight Illusion [1951] 9: Thing Constancy as Measured by Correlation Coefficients [1940] 10: Probability as a Determiner of Rat Behavior [1939] 11: Ecoloigcal Cue-Validity of "Proximity" and of Other Gestalt factors [1953]B. Demonstrations of a Comprehensive Theory 12: The Conceptual Framework of Psychology [1952] 13: Survival in a World of Probable Objects [1957]C. Final Thoughts 14: "Ratiomorphic" Models of Perception and Thinking [1955] 15: Perception and the Representative Design of Psychological Experiments [1956] 16: Ontogenetic and Other Developmental Parallels to the History of Science [1959] 17: Historical and Thematic Relations of Psychology to Other Sciences [1956] 18: Scope and Aspects of the Cognitive Problem [1957]Part 3: ApplicationsA. Theoretical and Methodological Contributions to Psychology 19: The Contribution of Representative Design to Calibration Research 20: Assessing Self-Insight via Policy Capturing and Cognitive Feedback 21: Judgment Analysis 22: Brunswik's Theoretical and Methodological Contributions to Research in Interpersonal Perception 23: Hierarchical Linear Models for the Nomothetic Aggregation of Idiographic Descriptions of Judgment 24: Vicarious Functioning Reconsidered: A Fast and Frugal Lens Model 25: Multiple Cue Probability Learning 26: From Ecological to Moral Psychology: Morality and the Psychology of Egon Brunswik 27: The Lens Model EquationB. Overviews of Applications to Substantive Problems 28: The Realistic Accuracy Model and Brunswik's Approach to Social Judgment 29: Application of the Lens Model to the Evaluation of Professional Performance 30: Brunswik and Medical Science 31: The Perception and Judgment of Rapport 32: The Relationship between Strategy and Achievement as the Basic Unit of Group Functioning 33: Brunswikian Research on Social Perception, Interpersonal Learning and Conflict, and Negotiation 34: Understanding the Effects of Psychiatric Drugs on Social Judgment 35: Human Factors 36: Representative Design: Cognitive Science from a Brunswikian PerspectiveC. Examples of Current Brunswikian Research and Application 37: Assessing the Reliability of Judgments 38: Vicarious Functioning in Teams 39: Probabilistic Functioning and Cognitive Aging 40: A Brunswikian Approach to Emotional Communication in Music Performance 41: An Application of the Lens Model to Guidance and Counselling of Adolescents 42: How Probabilistic Functionalism Advances Evolutionary Psychology 43: Brunswik and Quality of Life: A Brief NotePart 4: Brunswik: The Man and His Ideas 44: Ideas in Exile: The Struggles of an Upright Man 45: Egon Brunswik before and after Emigration: A Study in the History of Science 46: Expansion of Egon Brunswik's Psychology, 1955-1995 47: Notes from Berkeley, 1938, 1945-1948 48: Notes from a Student in ViennaEpilogueComplete Annotated List of Brunswik's Published PapersReferencesIndex